InfoD-Cafe: ReadHowYouWant.com paperback editions

[Deborah Taylor-Pearce]

Dave,

> or work from digitizations that
> are already free culture.

But surely it's not OK to copyright what is "already free
culture"?

In other words, could they take my ASCII transcription of
MC's replacement preface for the 1668 stand-alone edition of
_The Blazing World_ -- which I freely passed out to the
group in my original post, assuming that it would become
part of what I think of as the intellectual commons --
include it in one of their EasyRead editions, and copyright
it as their own work?

I.e., they could copyright my content (perhaps better termed
"my gift" ;-), as well as their own redesign of it?

> This is important for making a
> text typeface revival from an
> old book; if you use someone
> else's scans/photos, you will
> run into trouble

Personally, I think this is ridiculous, but I can well
believe it's the law. :(

Deborah
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Deborah Taylor-Pearce
dtp at she-philosopher.com